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"The Last Of The Big Sales"

With the auction of Jimmy Patino's sprawling golf collection, a lifetime of memories was offered to the highest bidder

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Shootout awaits to get into NCAA Elite Eight

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF.--If the first two days of the 115th NCAA Championship are any indication, the final 18 holes of stroke-play qualifying Thursday at Riveria CC aren't likely to resemble some ordinary round of golf.Try...

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No. 1 Texas has some work left

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF.--Coaches and teams fight all year to perform well so that if they should qualify for the NCAA Championship they can get into the wave that tees off the first round in the...

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May
Wed

McIlroy: 'These two-day weeks aren't...that good for me'

(Getty Images photo) DUBLIN, Ohio - Rory McIlroy hasn't lost his sense of humor, even if he has momentarily lost his golf game. After the shocking development of consecutive missed cuts, the reigning U.S. Open champion has slipped behind Luke Donald to No. 2 in the world. As a result of his recent poor play, he not only is entered in this week's Memorial Tournament, but also has added next week's FedEx St. Jude Classic before embarking for San Francisco and defense of his Open title at Olympic Club. McIlroy, 23, of Northern Ireland, is among seven of the top 10 players in the world competing in the 37th Memorial that begins Thursday at Jack Nicklaus' Muirfield Village GC. The field also includes Donald, four-time winner Tiger Woods and 2011 winner Steve Stricker. "I just feel like I need some rounds. These twoâ¿¿day weeks aren't really that good for me, so I just want to get some competitive rounds in," McIlroy, drawing laughs, said Wednesday when asked about his detour to Memphis next week. "I'm working on a few things, and I feel trying to put them into competition will be the best way for me to prepare going into the U.S. Open." Asked when he will arrive at Olympic Club, McIlroy replied, with a sheepish grin, "I'm planning on getting there on Sunday night. Do you know what I mean?" McIlroy, who finished fifth at last year's Memorial, picked an untimely stretch for poor play, missing the cut in consecutive big events -- at The Players in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and the BMW Championship at Wentworth in England. Earlier this year, McIlroy's game looked as good as ever as he opened his U.S. schedule with three straight top-3 finishes, including a victory in the Honda Classic. But his game hasn't been the same since then, including a disappointing Masters where he ended up T-40. "Everyone goes through this, where they just don't feel that comfortable with their game," he conceded, noting that he also is trying to find some equilibrium between his professional and personal life. Both keep him busy and traveling; McIlroy is dating one of the world's top women tennis players, Caroline Wozniacki. To regain some measure of comfort and familiarity with his vaunted swing, one of golf's most impeccable, McIlroy has been getting reacquainted with the practice tee. He and swing coach Michael Bannon stormed the range at Wentworth, mining the dirt there for six hours, and Bannon has accompanied McIlroy to Muirfield Village. "We've done some good work, identified a few things in my swing that we just need to look at," McIlroy said. "You know, when you've went on a run where you've hardly finished outside the top five and then all of a sudden two missed cuts, it's more of a shock than anything else, just a little bit surprising, and it's something I haven't really had to deal with in a while, and I just have to knuckle down and figure it out and get back to the way I was at the start of the year." Donald, who has risen to No. 1 in the world for a fourth time, said he can understand how a player as talented as McIlroy can hit a rut. It happens. It's golf. "I think Rory talked about it, that he maybe took his eye off the ball," said Donald, who regained the No. 1 slot by defending his title at Wentworth. "I remember when I was 23 and had an attractive girlfriend, I would take my eye off the ball sometimes, as well. You can't blame the kid. But he's obviously realized that, and it looks like he's trying to focus on practicing a little bit harder and getting back to what he does. "It's a tough game, this game. ... It's a fickle game, and it's tough. You've just got to work through it." -- Dave Shedloski

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Mid-week Lesson: Jack's universal principle

As the Memorial Tournament gets underway tomorrow, let's turn our attention to the man who conceived of the event, the winner of 20 major championships (I also count his two U.S. Amateurs). One of Jack...

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May
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The Golf Boys: Live edition

Depending on your entertainment taste, you likely think that The Golf Boys are either a great thing for golf, or a great annoyance. Either fortunately or unfortunately, golf's one and only boy band isn't going away anytime soon. Undeniable, however, is these guys' passion for charity. At the much-anticipated Bubba's Bash held last night in Ohio ahead of the Memorial, Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Hunter Mahan and Ben Crane performed their infamous song that's likely familiar to the fan of the PGA Tour. Now, we have a live edition to either haunt our dreams or embrace. Check it out: --Stephen Hennessey Follow @s_hennesseyGD !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Swing Box: The indoor golf net re-invented

Dr. Joseph Lee is a prominent LASIK eye surgeon in the Los Angeles area and was a frustrated golfer lamenting the lack of quality indoor nets with which to practice. So he combined the...

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Opening 67 at NCAAs shows maturity from Arboleda

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF.--After shooting a four-under 67 to take the first-round lead at the 115th NCAA Championship, UCLA's Anton Arboleda was asked the obvious question outside Riviera CC's clubhouse late Tuesday afternoon: What had you...

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Tue

Alabama takes NCAA Day 1 lead at Riviera

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIF.--The Tide is still rolling. Four days after the Alabama women's team claimed the NCAA title in Tennessee, the men's squad shot a one-over 285 at Riviera CC to take the Day 1...

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Tue

Captain Price: 'Huge honor...I want to win'

DUBLIN, Ohio - It's been a long road for Nick Price to the captaincy of the International Presidents Cup team. Price on Tuesday was formally introduced as the captain for the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village GC. The native of Zimbabwe will serve opposite Fred Couples, who will be the U.S. skipper for a third straight time after successful turns in 2009 and '11. The affable Price, a three-time major champion, confirmed a story first reported in the Nov. 28, 2011 edition of Golf World Monday that he was offered the captaincy in 2007 for the '09 Presidents Cup at Harding Park in San Francisco. Price, however, turned it down so that longtime friend Greg Norman could serve first. Norman, of course, remained captain for the 2011 matches in Melbourne, Australia. "It was a two-fold, and maybe a three-fold, decision on my part," Price, 55, explained Tuesday afternoon at Muirfield Village. "First of all, that was back in '07 when they came to me, and that was my first year on the Champions Tour, and I wanted to play a little and concentrate on my game a bit. "Second thing is, Greg was an established player long before I was, and he is older than I am. So I thought protocol dictated that he should be the captain ahead of me. I thought that was a really important thing. Plus, I didn't want to be the captain and have there be some extra agenda going on (in the media). I didn't want them asking, 'Oh, does Commissioner [Tim] Finchem have a problem with Greg that he didn't ask him first?' You know what I'm saying? I wanted a clean slate." There was some discussion in the media that if Couples was brought back, then perhaps Norman should get a third try as well, especially since both are past winners of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village. But even Norman admitted at Royal Melbourne last fall that Price was due to be the next leader of an International team that has won only once since the Presidents Cup began in 1994. "I got an e-mail from Greg two days ago, a very nice e-mail wishing me the best of luck. That was very kind of him," Price said. "This is such a huge honor for me. I am so looking forward to it - and I don't look forward to too many things right now. The big thing is I want that buzz for the players. And then, you know, I want to win." Price said he is taking under advisement several suggestions that Norman made following the American victory at Royal Melbourne, including asking for four captain's picks instead of two to fill out the team. But it's simply too early for him to comment on what his plans are, even if he has been thinking about this day for nearly five years. "There are a lot of things I'm going to look at," he said. "But everything I look at is going to be about making this event very competitive. I want that last day to mean something. I want it to come down to those last few groups on Sunday the way the Ryder Cup often does. How do we get to that? Well, that's what I have to figure out." --Dave Shedloski